On December 2nd at Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania, first steel was cut on the Royal Netherlands Navy’s (RNLN) Combat Support Ship (CSS) Den Helder. The cutting is the first of sixteen batches, totaling 7500 tonnes of steel in 180 sections.

This marks an important milestone in this project, the f…

Steel cutting ceremony of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASWSWCs) for Indian Navy was held on 01 Dec 2020 at Cochin Shipyard Limited, Kochi. Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy declared through video conferencing the commencement of s…

On Thursday, December 3, 2020, at 04:14, a “Soyuz-2” medium-class launch vehicle with a block of spacecraft of the “Gonets-M” low-orbit commercial satellite communication system and the “ERA-1” nanoscale service platform developed for the Russian Defence Ministry, designed for testing advanced micro…

The Rolls-Royce MT30 marine gas turbine has been selected for the Republic of Korea Navy’s (RoKN) FFX Batch III frigate, known as the Ulsan-class frigate which will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Rolls-Royce has already successfully worked with the RoKN to introduce a revolutionary, moder…

ROSTOCK, Germany — The Bundeswehr is planning the MKS multi-purpose combat ship 180, now known as the future Type 126 frigate, as an all-rounder for the Navy. Mission modules cover a wide range of uses – with superiority in naval warfare at the extreme end.

The MKS multi-purpose combat ship 180…

Typhoons from Number 12 Squadron have arrived in Qatar for Exercise Epic Skies. Pilots from the Royal Air Force and Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) will fly the Typhoons together for the first time as a joint squadron in Qatar, strengthening the close ties between both nations.

More than 130 personn…